Parenting Tips for Parents of Preschoolers

At this age preschoolers understand them selves better. This is the age, what ever we teach they will remember though out their life. The right time to teach any good habits, hobbies, good behavior which we our family believes in. Here are some parenting ideas for 3 year olds and above.

Be a Role model: Kids learn from the surroundings. Kids of age around 3, where most of the time they spend at home, learn most of the things from parents. So as a parent, we need to look at how we talk to our kids. Threats and bribes teach them fear and greed. Nagging, lecturing, or yelling will teach the child its ok to yell when they want to. And for sure, the child will not listen whenever we shout. We need to be calm in every situation, exactly the same way how we expect our child to be. We need to show all the good manners in our day to day activities, then only they will learn.

Why How and What (Curiosity): At this age preschooler’s loved words are “Why”,”How” and ”What”.  The answers to these questions need to be short, sweet and direct. In school they would obviously learn the science behind it later. Now the answers should be such that, they should get more curious and satisfied with the answers.

Raise a kid with a big Heart : Raising a grateful kid in this greedy world is not simple. We will never be able to give our kids every little thing they want, but we can teach them to appreciate what they have. We can teach them how to share, how to care for others and how to be honest.

A Preschooler

Keeping them Active and Creative:  In this competitive world every child need to be very active and alert at every moment. W should include plenty of active time in each and every day. Television is not an active time so keep it to a minimum. Get involved in creative play with kids. If some thing is not coming the way expected, it could lead to mini-meltdowns, which could derail the process. Make sure to join in any creative projects, and show your child your own effort. We should show there are lots of different ways to achieve our goal.

Getting along with the friends and Outdoor Activities :  If a preschooler is outside running jumping and playing on a daily basis, then when he is nine and ten and older, he will feel the need to go out and move.  And physical activity is must to stay fit and healthy. Activities for young preschooler can be like Pedaling a tricycle, Kicking or Catching the soft ball. Just play and run around with friends.

Food habits: We should develop good eating habits in kids from beginning. As we all know healthy family is a happy family. Try to use more of fresh leafy vegetables, fruits, milk and milk products which increase natural immunity in the body to fight against diseases.

Reading as a Hobby : Books make great companions of a man. Reading books is a very good hobby a person can have. Preschoolers learn skills like recognizing numbers and letters, rhyming and wordplay when parents spend time reading to their kids. That way we could build interest in books in our kids.

Listen, Share and Learn: The key features to be developed in kids to be a successful human being in future. We should make them understand how much pleasure we get from sharing with others what we have. Listening to other’s words, caring for others feelings are very important characters one should have.

Sleep zzzzzzzz: Kids need to get adequate amount of sleep every day to be healthy and active. Sleep could lead to cranky behavior. They have fun and would enjoy more, function better and be cooperative with the correct amount of sleep.

Stick to the rule and routine with a bit of freedom: Clear and consistent rules need to be followed in the family. Every one hates conflicts, but if we as parents don’t stick to the rules and consequences we set up, our kids are not likely to either. It looks sad when we refuse to buy our kid another doll when she is asking for it. Instead of firmly standing, we could just console the child saying “I understand your feelings and that u really want that doll, you will be very disappointed if you don’t get that doll, but think about how many dolls already you have at home and whether its already enough” its absolutely fine to stick to our rules and don’t buy her that doll, but the way we express it makes the difference. By showing her empathy and understanding, she is likely to feel better even though she did not get what she wanted, some times a touch of empathy and understanding is all that preschoolers need. 

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3 Ways with Egg For Preschooler- Healthy Lunch Box Recipe For School - A Complete food for Growing Kids

Egg is one of the most nutritious food item in our diet. It is rich in Minerals, Proteins and Vitamins. It is a very healthy food for growing kids.

Here are 3 easy recipes of Egg.

1. Hard Boiled, the easy way:  Egg is a complete food for growing kids. And boiled egg is very easy to make recipe of egg. It  goes very well with any rice items as a side dish. It can also be served as a light snack. The white part of egg is very much rich in proteins.

·        Place 2 eggs in a pan as it is along with shell.

·        Fill the pan with water till eggs fully get dipped. 

·        Cover the lid and place the pan on stove.

·        Get water to boil over high  heat.

·        As soon as water reaches boiling point, remove the pan from heat.

·        Let eggs stand in water, covered for 12 minutes.

·        Drain and rinse under cold water until cool.

·        Peel and serve with salt and pepper powder.

Egg And Egg

2. Scrambled Egg : The easiest and quickest way to serve egg.

·        Keep a non stick frying pan, over medium heat, melt 2 tsp butter.

·        Wash 1 egg neatly.

·        Use spoon or fork to break the egg over the pan.

·        pour the contents of egg over the pan directly.

·        As soon as egg start to set, tip pan to set uncooked mixture run to side on all sides.

·        Repeat until egg is completely set.

·        Sprinkle pepper power and salt to taste.

·        Don’t fold over, slide out of the pan and server.

3. Egg Omelet :  Egg omelet can be served with chapattis, rotis or bread. This recipe is kid’s very favorite recipe. The recipe we have given here is very basic omelet recipe. More flavors can be added by sprinkling a few favorite toppings (diced red pepper, spinach, olives or celery to taste, finely chopped red or yellow capsicum, finely cut mushroom) on half the omelet. Egg Omelet is one of a perfect lunch box recipe which every kid would love to eat. Have Egg Omelet along with chapatti for lunch box. 

·        In a vessel, whisk 3 eggs.

·        Beat eggs properly so that no lumps are formed.

·        Cut 2 small onions and 1 big tomato in to it.

·        Put turmeric powder, pepper powder, salt to taste.

·        Add chopped coriander leaves.

·        In a large, non stick frying pan, over medium heat, melt 2 tsp butter.

·        Add egg mixture, make it as thin as possible and let it fry over medium flame.

·        Fold over, slide out of the pan and serve.

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Best Summer Activities For Kids Especially For Preschoolers

If you are thinking of summer activities, then while selecting the right summer activity, talk to your child about what he loves to do and discuss the available options. The activities should be such that it should balance fun and learning. Learning should be covert. If opting for summer camp or workshops, then consider cost and proximity. Look for workshop conducted by professional where the batches are small and environment is safe.

With the kids at home through out the day, we need to turn our every day activities into creative projects, that both entertain and keep kids busy.

Cooking and Serving :

The idea is to mess around and have some fun. And if your kids pick up something in the process, even better. Get your kids involved in preparing some simple dishes like salads or cookies or rolling chapathis.  Children love to squish and squelch things with their hands. So whether you need to do it to mixing tomato pieces for a salad or potatoes, to make a curry. Get your child involved. This way he would feel happy, he was part the of the job. Also praise your child, by telling a friend or relative in detail about the job he did, in front of him. This makes a lot of difference.

Summer Activities

Hit the beach or at least pool side:

Kids love water, especially beach, be it winter or summer. And beach is one place, where your kids would get all your undivided  attention. No TV, No phones and No laptop. J.  There are lot of activities you could do there. Fly a kite, Pick up shells, Go for a looooong walk , Make sand castle, Play a ball game. These are the days our kids would remember, long after holidays are over.

Summer Reading :

Expose your preschooler to a variety of reading material. Short stories, newspaper, comic books, novels. Let him guide you in what he interested to read. For example, if she loves animails, then give him some short moral story books, like panchatantra. Then discuss the characters in the story, moral of the story etc.

An Arts and Craft Idea:

Child can make a cup which says “Yes I can”. Give your child few old magazines. And ask him to cut out small images of things(the size should be such that, atleast 4 pictures should fit in a cup),  which he can do. Now Give your child a clean cup and ask him to stick those image on to it. Now the self – confidence booster cup ready, which will remind him of his abilities.

Few more interesting summer activities can be found at Summer Activities.

  

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